(1957-) is a modern day Renaissance man (comedian, author, actor, playwright, director, documentary-maker, TV host, radio host, journalist) and all-around creative titan. Fry has a formidable intellect which I find myself constantly in awe of - I lov...

Fast access, global demand, short deadlines and quick turnaround have made it all too easy to stray away from the basics of design. If you had a professor in college who taught you design fundamentals, the basics should be engrained in you. If you ar...

The ability to use the left hand with more versatility than the right is referred to as left-handedness. Left-handed people use their left hand more dominantly for a number everyday activities. Among the famous ones with such ambidexterity are the US...

Fortunately shaming also equals hilarity for us. And cuteness! Stick around for the end, it's well worth it. Head over to the Talk Amongst Yourselves forum for more conversations, off and on-topic. The Ultimate Dog Shaming [YouTube via Modern Primate...

Sometimes a garage is just a garage and other times a garage is a miniature modern house just waiting to happen. In this case, it's the latter, which means I probably need to pack my bags, move back to Seattle and into this (now) house. It's not a...

Short fiction is the "garage band" of science fiction, claims Tor Books editor Patrick Nielsen Hayden, so it's time to step on that fuzzbox and thrash as hard as you can without knocking over your mom's weed-trimmer.

The human body and its formation lie at the core of the Korean artist Seo Young Deok's work who is preoccupied with the stories told through the human figure. His solo exhibition 'Dystopia' took place at the INSA/Arko Art Centre in Seoul and showed h...

Unlike other media, gaming makes us all participants. One of the really fascinating and sort of remarkable things to come out of the Mass Effect ending/DLC dissent movement is a discussion of story. What makes a good story in a game? How do we balanc...

Stories in video games should be experienced. Tom Bissell has written quite possibly the best thing about Skyrim that I've read. There's so much to admire (and, as a writer, to envy) in his review, I'm tempted to just excerpt the whole thing. I won't...

Last week another photographer posted a question on Facebook asking if it was okay to pin your own work on Pinterest. I was surprised to see that many of the photographers who commented back admonished those who pin their own work and even cited Pin...

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The main problem with Twilight isn't its sparkly vampires who lack all traditional weaknesses, or even its anti-feminist sensibility. When you get right down to it, the trouble is that the writing is terrible, filled with cliche phrases ("smoldering ...

How did Hollywood manage to fit so many of our must-see projects into one year? 2012 features Nolan's last Batman, Whedon's Avengers, Ridley Scott's return to science fiction, Andrew Stanton's John Carter, the Hunger Games movie, and Alfonso Cuaron's...